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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Maurice Wilson think the Filipinos would hide American escapees from the Japanese prison camp?
(a) The Filipinos hated the Americans.
(b) The Filipinos would turn them in for the reward.
(c) The Filipinos were enemies as well.
(d) The Filipinos were afraid of the Japanese.

2. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.
(c) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.
(d) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.

3. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-Italian sentiment.
(b) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(c) Anti-German sentiment.
(d) Anti-black sentiment.

4. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?
(a) Americans helped other nations.
(b) Americans saw themselves as good.
(c) Americans were patriotic.
(d) Americans hated another nation.

5. What causes the disease of beriberi, that stops kidney function?
(a) Lack of Vitamin C.
(b) Lack of potassium.
(c) Lack of Vitamin B1.
(d) Lack of protein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did American soldiers do on the streets of Japan that was considered bad manners?

2. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?

3. How did John Kenneth Galbraith say the bombing of Hamburg increased the German war effort?

4. What did Betty Hutchinson say WWII veterans told their children about the war?

5. Why did Mike Royko spent nights in a pitch-black apartment as a child during the war?

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